Is Personal Finance considered Social Studies?

Ohno2
Thu, 04 Apr 2024 19:00:40 +0000

Thank you for the link to that other thread - that was super enlightening. The more I dig into this, looking at dozens of college CDS’s and admissions websites, the more I think that the vast, vast majority (but not all) of colleges only recommend or require at max THREE years of history/social studies. (I did not look at California colleges because California seems to be its own beast and we are not applying there! ) Even UMich, which I referenced earlier in the thread, says explicitly on their admissions page that they only require three years (even though their CDS reports four are required). I have come to the conclusion that for many colleges, three years is sufficient. What this means for my child is that they can take personal finance in senior year and not worry about taking a fourth year of history on top of that. (This will not impact rigor as they are taking an incredibly rigorous schedule and not taking a fourth year of history actually opens up room for another rigorous science AP which they are more interested in.) Do posters on CC need to revise the often articulated advice that all students need four years of social studies/history?